Chen Changan and his group found Seeking Dream again. She showed no unusual reaction to their return.
"Master Chen, you were gone for several days. Did you manage to find anything?" Seeking Dream asked curiously.
"Yes. I did discover a few things."
"I want to ask you something. Have you always been in control of your own consciousness?" Chen Changan asked.
Hearing Chen Changan's question, Seeking Dream was taken aback. She didn't quite understand why he was asking.
"Are you saying my consciousness might be controlled too?"
"That shouldn't be the case. If it were, I wouldn't have been able to suppress her soul and keep it dormant," Seeking Dream said, shaking her head.
"Has there ever been a time when you couldn't control your consciousness?"
"Has your mind ever gone blank?" Chen Changan continued.
"Well..."
"Does resting count?"
Resting?
Seeking Dream was at the Emperor Above Realm. Did someone at that level even need to rest? Surely staying awake all the time wouldn't affect her at all.
"How often do you rest?"
"How long do you need to rest each time?" Chen Changan asked curiously.
"Not too often. It's just a habit. My situation is rather special, after all. This body spent a long time without a soul."
"Even after I merged with this body, I still needed to rest every so often. It wasn't for long, just a few days."
"During that time, I usually fell into a deep sleep. You could say it was a process that helped my soul and body fuse together in harmony."
"If my consciousness ever went blank, it could only have happened then."
"What exactly are you suspecting?" Seeking Dream asked, frowning.
"After staying in the Illusion Dream Domain for so long, do you really know nothing about what's happening to the